Encountering the Koi

In a blink of an eye, Fu Tian came, and it was very hot. I knew Tang Xia and kept screaming.

Shen Yingqiu moved a deck chair and sat under the shade of the tree, put a pot of Longjing tea, drank tea, listened to cicadas, and felt the heat of this summer.

If there is wind, the shade of this tree could not be more pleasant.

In previous years, there were always several heavy rains at this time of year, but this year, it was very dry and the wind was not frequent.

Shen Yingqiu leaned against the chair and sat there quietly, her heart was calm and cool.

What's more, there was a guy who was cold all over his body beside him, so he didn't feel that hot at the moment.

His legs and feet are not good, so he can sit for most of the day, and when the sun sets and night falls, the children in the village and some adults, carrying oil lamps, go to the woods at the entrance of the village to catch monkeys one by one.

Xiao Shitou, a child from Aunt Li's house diagonally across the door, poked his head out and called out to Shen Yingqiu who was under the shade of a tree: "Brother Qiu."

Shen Yingqiu smiled at him, hummed, looked at that innocent little face, and asked, "What are you doing?"

Xiaoshitou pushed the door in, walked up to Shen Yingqiu and said, "Brother Qiu, my little friend and I want to come to your courtyard to catch cicada monkeys."

"Okay." Shen Yingqiu smiled and nodded.

Little Shitou was very happy, and after a while, he called his friends to come to this other courtyard to catch cicada monkeys.

Shen Yingqiu hadn't caught a cicada monkey for a long time, and now she followed the children to carry the oil lamp, and looked down by the tree seriously.

The yard is not big, just a few big trees to enjoy the shade. In previous years, a few rains could catch a few and fry them in a frying pan. This year, there are very few.

After searching for a long time, those young men caught a few and went home resentfully, but Shen Yingqiu didn't catch any.

Back on the couch, he sighed.

Shui Qianmo said: "Why sigh?"

Shen Yingqiu turned her head to look at him: "One is not caught." Her face was full of disappointment.

Shui Qianmo sat up straight, looked not far away, and then asked: "Do you like to eat that?"

"Well, I guess." Shen Yingqiu smiled: "I didn't like to eat it before, but a doctor told me that I am weak, so I know that monkeys are rich in nutrition, and the shell can also be used as medicinal materials. It is not bad to eat."

Shui Qianmo frowned slightly, stood up, and said, "I'll take you to catch it elsewhere." He picked up Shen Yingqiu and disappeared into the yard in a blink of an eye.

When they came to the place where the two of them enjoyed the lotus that day, Shen Yingqiu put her feet on the ground, stared at the woods by the lake for a while, and said, "I forgot to ask, where is this place?"

"Mochou Lake." Shui Qianmo replied.

"Ah?" Shen Yingqiu was surprised: "Mochou Lake?"

"This is the south side of Mochou Lake."

Shen Yingqiu was stunned for a moment, then murmured: "This lake is so big." After a pause, she blinked and asked: "Qianmo, is there a Dragon King at the bottom of the lake?"

"No."

"Is there a prime minister tortoise at the bottom of the lake?" he asked again.

"No."

"Are there shrimp soldiers and crab generals?"

"No."

"Are there any pretty females?"

"..." Shui Qianmo was speechless: "No."

"Are there any female fish?" Shen Yingqiu looked at him and asked curiously: "There must be female fish, right?"

Shui Qianmo frowned.

"Is there?" Shen Yingqiu insisted on asking why: "Is there any beautiful female fish, but is there any ugly one?"

Shui Qianmo ignored him, just quietly listening to his questioning.

"Ah?" Shen Yingqiu was startled, and asked herself: "Why is there nothing, are they all male fish like you?"

Shui Qianmo: "..." I don't understand what this person is thinking at all.

After pondering for a moment, he said with a somber face: "There are many female fish, I don't know why Young Master Shen is asking this?"

"You are so handsome, has any fish taken a fancy to you?" Shen Yingqiu asked with a smile.

Shui Qianmo: "..."

Shen Yingqiu said again: "Many fish must be admiring you." As she spoke, there was a bit of sour taste.

Shui Qianmo turned her face away from him, speechless and bored.

Shen Yingqiu didn't know what came to her mind, she was happy, and said with a smile: "You have lived for so long, have you always been pure-hearted and ascetic? When you were not cultivating immortals, did you ever offend some sister fish, and then stayed behind?" Some romantic debt?"

Hearing this, Shui Qianmo glared at him, without saying a word, raised her hand and pushed Shen Yingqiu into the lake.

Shen Yingqiu exclaimed, and then cursed: "You evil monster, do you want to drown me?"

Shui Qianmo ignored him, went down the lake, and approached Shen Yingqiu with indifferent eyes, Shen Yingqiu immediately shut up obediently and kept quiet.

Shui Qianmo looked at him, and said coldly, "What are you thinking about?"

Shen Yingqiu blinked: "I didn't think about anything, I was just curious, why be angry?"

"Most fish don't need sex, unlike you humans, who have to combine sex." The understatement made Shen Yingqiu blush.

Biting his lip, he retorted: "I didn't ask this, why are you telling me this?"

Shui Qianmo looked at him coldly, and said, "Think about it, you know it best."

Shen Yingqiu: "..."

His face was flushed, and he stared at him in embarrassment.

Shui Qianmo gave him a ruthless look: "It seems that I really want to."

Shen Yingqiu: "..."

Angrily about to be caught by this bad fish, he pursed his lips aggrievedly, stared at the monster and confessed: "Yeah, I thought about it, I thought about it very much, I'm an ordinary person, so I don't think about it. Even doing it is very common, how can you, a fish, understand." After a short pause, he said bitterly, "You bald fish!"

Shui Qianmo: "..."

frown.

Bald fish?

what for?

After finishing speaking, Shen Yingqiu was playing with her hands in the shallow water, but she thought angrily in her heart, how could there be such an incomprehensible and vicious person, no, it's a monster, a fish monster, it's just too annoying.

And Shui Qianmo lay on the surface of the water with a question mark on his face:

Bald fish?

Where am I bald?

Why did he call me a bald fish?

……

Racking my brains, I don't know.

Because this stupid fish really doesn't understand Shen Yingqiu's thinking.

After being silent for a long time, he finally couldn't hold back and asked, "What is a bald fish?"

After hearing this, Shen Yingqiu was taken aback for a moment, then smiled in a low voice, and said angrily, "I won't tell you."

Shui Qianmo frowned, pouted together with his mouth, and said, "You really don't want to tell?"

Shen Yingqiu smiled: "Well, I really don't want to tell."

Although he was extremely puzzled and felt helpless with Shen Yingqiu's attitude, Shui Qianmo didn't ask any more questions.

Silence, deadpan is silence.

Shen Yingqiu looked at him with a smile, seeing his calm and silent expression, she knew that the fish wanted to know the answer, so she made a gesture of knocking on the wooden fish to chant scriptures with her hand, and then raised eyebrows wickedly at Shui Qianmo.

Shui Qianmo only took one look, and immediately understood that this person actually said that he was a monk.However, if you think about it carefully, you are right.

He was no longer depressed, curled his lips lightly, and said, "Have you ever seen such a good-looking monk?"

Shen Yingqiu laughed when she heard the words, and thought to herself, what an arrogant monster, but she had to agree with this, yes, how can there be such a beautiful monk with long hair.

He smiled and said, "Yes, I have never seen a monk as good-looking as you."

Shui Qianmo raised her eyebrows slightly, but said nothing.

Shen Yingqiu suddenly thought of something, frowned and said: "Didn't you come to catch the cicada monkey? Come on, carry me ashore." She stretched out her arms, waiting for Shui Qianmo to hug him.

Shui Qianmo was really obedient, swam close to him, stretched out his arms to hug him, before he could react, the two had already landed on the shore, and the clothes on their bodies were already dry.

Shen Yingqiu said: "Qianmo."

Shui Qianmo turned to look at him.

Seeing the face of the man in front of him through the moonlight, he looked at him with a smile on his lips.

He raised his eyebrows slightly, but didn't speak.

"Qianmo, you are so pretty." Shen Yingqiu said.

Shui Qianmo looked at him for an unknown amount of time before saying lightly, "Thank you."

Shen Yingqiu smiled and said, "Go, go and catch the cicada monkey."

Shui Qianmo nodded: "Okay."

After walking two steps, Shen Yingqiu stopped, looked at him, frowned and muttered: "There is no oil lamp."

Shui Qianmo was silent for a moment, and waved his hand, but seeing that the mountains were full of light, Shen Yingqiu exclaimed, and then smiled openly.

Shui Qianmo looked at him, a smile flashed across his brows and eyes, and said, "Okay, now I can see clearly."

Shen Yingqiu nodded: "Thanks for your hard work." Then she lowered her head and began to look for it.

About a cup of tea, Shen Yingqiu caught a dozen of them, and he happily showed off to Shui Qianmo.

Shui Qianmo nodded expressionlessly: "Not bad."

Shen Yingqiu looked at him, put all the Cicada Monkey in his hand, and said: "You have big hands, you hold them."

Hearing this, Shui Qianmo just gave a faint "hmm".

But the next moment, Shen Yingqiu took the caught Cicada Monkey from Shui Qianmo's hand and put it in his pocket.

Shui Qianmo looked at his series of actions and asked, "Why did you take it away again?"

Shen Yingqiu looked at him and said with a smile: "I'm afraid this little thing scratched your hand with its claws." Then she pointed to his hand: "Your hands are delicate and tender, if they are scratched, they will painful."

Hearing this, Shui Qianmo frowned slightly, and didn't say much, just took out all the cicadas from his pocket, held them in his hands, and said: "You underestimated me, would I be afraid of this little thing?" His tone was cold cold.

Shen Yingqiu curled her lips and muttered to herself, she is really a stupid fish who doesn't know good people.

Muttering like this, he continued to search in the woods, Shui Qianmo grabbed the dozen or so cicada monkeys, and followed him quietly.

Shen Yingqiu caught one and handed it to him. After a while, his hand was full and he couldn't hold it anymore. He said, "It's full."

"You are a 1000-year-old demon, you know magic, don't you know how to do it?" Shen Yingqiu said without raising her head.

After hearing this, Shui Qianmo frowned.

After thinking about it, he changed into a small bamboo basket, put the cicada monkey in his hand into the bamboo basket, and then closed the lid.

Shen Yingqiu raised her head, looked at it, and praised: "Not bad."

Shui Qianmo followed Shen Yingqiu with a small bamboo basket, and after a while, Shen Yingqiu straightened her back, shook her body, and said wearily: "I'm tired." He paused: "But I still want to grab this bamboo basket. Man, do you think it's okay?"

Shui Qianmo nodded: "Okay." After a moment of silence: "But, aren't you tired? You're not in good health, so don't catch them. These should be enough for you to eat."

Shen Yingqiu shook her head: "It's not enough, I still have to give it to Qing Sheng and Xiao Shitou's children. How can this be enough?"

After hearing this, Shui Qianmo frowned, pondered for a moment, and said, "You are not in good health. If you are tired, you can't blame others."

Shen Yingqiu curled her lips: "You do care about me, but I want to say, why don't you help me catch it?"

"Didn't I help carry this bamboo basket?" Shui Qianmo said.

"You put down the bamboo basket, and the two of us grab it together, wouldn't it be faster and more?" Shen Yingqiu said: "You are a demon with spells, if you use spells, can you know the cicadas in the woods all at once? All the monkeys were captured?"

Shui Qianmo nodded: "Yes."

Hearing this, Shen Yingqiu rolled her eyes, thought for a while, and said: "Then can you help me catch it with magic?"

Shui Qianmo looked at him upon hearing this, and said, "If I use magic, you're afraid you'll blame me."

Hearing this, Shen Yingqiu was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "Why? I'm too happy to be happy, how can I blame you?"

Shui Qianmo frowned, thought about it, and then said: "Don't you humans pay the most attention to the process and experience? Qingyun once said that life needs to learn to enjoy the process, which is even more important than the result. Basket, wouldn’t it take away your fun of catching cicada monkeys?”

Shen Yingqiu was stunned, and said: "This is true." After a while: "But it's not the case now, the process of enjoying is indeed important, but for a person like me who is in poor health, such things should be done in moderation, just like As you said, it’s not good if you’re tired. I’ve enjoyed the fun just now, and my body is also tired, so I can use your spell to help me fill this bamboo basket.”

After hearing this, Shui Qianmo was silent for a while, and then said: "Okay." As he spoke, he used spells to fill the bamboo basket with cicada monkeys.

Shen Yingqiu looked at the full bamboo basket, and sighed with a smile: "Qianmo, you are too good...it's really good to know spells."

After finishing speaking, he patted Shui Qianmo on the shoulder, and said again: "Oh, if I knew it, I would have let you use spells earlier, it made my tired legs and feet sore."

Shui Qianmo: "..." Speechless.

Shen Yingqiu pointed to the bamboo basket, and motioned for Shui Qianmo to carry it. The demon was very obedient, and obediently lifted the bamboo basket. Shen Yingqiu approached him and held his hand.

"walk home."

Shui Qianmo didn't make a sound, but held Shen Yingqiu's hand tightly, and led him to walk in the woods, and disappeared in the woods after a while.